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Notable & Quotable: David Cameron on How to Combat Islamist Extremism

Britain’s prime minister says the U.K. must promote its own values, contrasting them with the zealots’ ‘bigotry, aggression and theocracy.’

July 20, 2015 7:32 p.m. ET

From a speech by British Prime Minister David Cameron on Islamist extremism, in Birmingham, England, July 20:

First, any strategy to defeat extremism must confront, head on, the extreme ideology that underpins it. We must take its component parts to pieces—the cultish worldview, the conspiracy theories, and yes, the so-called glamorous...